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UN report on Iraq confirms improved security situation and encourages investment

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2019-07-08 07:31

 

 

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On Monday, the United Nations published a report after its visit to Iraq, which showed that there was an improvement in the security situation in order to encourage investment and the continuation of the work of humanitarian organizations in Iraq.

" The security situation has improved to encourage investment and allows international organizations, the UN mission and other diplomatic missions to work widely," UN Secretary-General 's Special Envoy Peter Drenan said during a visit to Iraq to assess the security situation.

 

 

The report praised "the role of the Iraqi government and the Prime Minister's Office through the National Operations Center in facilitating the functions of international agencies based on the Center's knowledge of the role of the United Nations in terms of political, humanitarian and development." 

The report pointed to "the emphasis on the role of the United Nations in the face of extremism, and the continuation of the work of humanitarian organizations in Iraq ." 

"The goal of the Iraqi government is to work for the return of the displaced to their places of residence, to provide services and education, to rehabilitate the infrastructure of the liberated cities and the importance of the United Nations as a key partner in supporting those efforts," the report said.

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2019/07/08 14:49

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UN report on Iraq confirms improved security situation and encourages investment

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United Nations published a report on Monday, July 8, 2019, after its visit to Iraq, which showed that there was an improvement in the security situation to encourage investment and the continued work of humanitarian organizations in Iraq.

"The security situation has improved to encourage investment and allows international organizations, the UN mission and other diplomatic missions to work widely," UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy Peter Drenan said during a visit to Iraq to assess the security situation. 

The report praised "the role of the Iraqi government and the Prime Minister's Office through the National Operations Center in facilitating the functions of international agencies based on the Center's knowledge of the role of the United Nations in terms of political, humanitarian and development."

The report pointed to "the emphasis on the role of the United Nations in the face of extremism, and the continuation of the work of humanitarian organizations in Iraq."

"The goal of the Iraqi government is to work for the return of the displaced to their places of residence, to provide services and education, to rehabilitate the infrastructure of the liberated cities and the importance of the United Nations as a key partner in supporting those efforts," the report said.

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[eighty227]

MEETINGS COVERAGE

SC/13880

11 JULY 2019

• SECURITY COUNCIL

8571ST MEETING (AM)

Security Council, after First Ever Visit to Iraq, Says Economic Reform Vital for Post-Conflict Recovery, Warning Fight Against Terrorism ‘Not Over’

The Security Council recognized the challenges facing Iraq in transitioning into a post-conflict environment and the need for economic reform, the co-leaders of the Council’s first ever visit to the country said today.

In a mission co-led by Kuwait and the United States, Council members visited Kuwait City and Baghdad on 28 and 29 June, meeting with high-level officials to better gauge the situation on the ground.  In a joint briefing, the co-leads described the visit’s itinerary and conclusions reached about current achievements and challenges.

Mansour Ayyad Sh. A. Alotaibi (Kuwait) said the purpose of the trip was five-fold.  It first aimed at demonstrating support for Iraq’s post-conflict recovery and reconstruction.  It also was to observe and support efforts of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh).

It further aimed to recognize the challenges ahead, he said, including addressing the humanitarian situation, the need for economic reform and attracting inward investment, and to better understand the aspirations and concerns of the Iraqi people as they begin the process of stabilizing and rebuilding their country.  Finally, the visit hoped to address the issue of Kuwaiti and third-party nationals and the return of Kuwaiti property, including national archives, in line with resolution 2107 (2013).

The mission began in Kuwait City, he said, where members met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khalid al-Hamad al-Sabah, discussing regional issues and bilateral engagement between Iraq and Kuwait.  Members also met to discuss missing Kuwaiti and third-country nationals and related outstanding issues with Alice Walpole, Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs for UNAMI, and Omar Odeh, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation in Kuwait in his capacity as Chair of the tripartite mechanism.  Members also met the World Bank representative to discuss follow-up to international financial pledges.

In Baghdad, members met with Iraqi interlocutors, he said, conveying the Council’s recognition of remaining challenges in Iraq’s post-conflict recovery and reconstruction.  Welcoming positive progress towards the full formation of the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government, members noted their continued engagement to resolve differences, in line with the Iraqi Constitution.  Members also commended Iraq for seeking enhanced regional diplomatic and economic reintegration.

Jonathan R. Cohen (United States) said that members underscored the strong and continued commitment of the international community to support Iraq’s stability, prosperity, sovereignty, and security.  In meetings with Iraqi and United Nations interlocutors, Council members stressed the need not only for economic reform and more internal investment, but also regional economic integration.  They also noted that while ISIL/Da’esh no longer controls any Iraqi territory, the fight is not over.  The enduring defeat of the group requires the stabilization of liberated areas, building up resilient communities, and ensuring the continued security for all Iraqis, he said, adding that Iraq’s diversity is critical to its richness and strength.  Council members also discussed the humanitarian situation and underscored the importance of the safe, dignified and voluntary return of all internally displaced persons affected by conflict.

The mission was successful due to the extensive amount of first-hand information obtained in face-to-face meetings with Iraq and United Nations interlocutors, he stressed.  This helped gather a better understanding of the aspirations and concerns of the Iraqi people as they begin the process of stabilizing and rebuilding their country.  He commended the Government of Kuwait for co-sponsoring the mission and the Government of Iraq for joining Council members for many meetings.  He further commended President Masoud Barzani and leaders of the Kurdistan Regional Government for joining the delegation in Baghdad from Erbil and civil society who remain “on the forefront of achieving a better Iraq”.

Vladimir K. Safronkov (Russian Federation), recalling the visit, said contact with regional players confirmed that the Council mission remains an important instrument in its activities.  Welcoming the intention to establish good neighbourly relations and the desire to find solutions, he underlined the importance of mediation-based diplomacy, emphasizing that every State in the region has an interest in this.  “The fight against terrorism is not over,” he said, highlighting the timeliness of the Russian Federation’s counter-terrorism initiative.  Noting that resolving this issue depends on subregional, regional and international cooperation, he said the fight against terrorism should be led in a coordinated manner under the auspices of the United Nations.

Yarob al-Timimi (Iraq) said the visit was timely as Iraq requires the support of all the members of the international community.  “It is a message to the whole world and all people:  Iraq has managed to put itself on the right track and overcome all the shocks of the past, and has reached a developed stage of democracy,” he emphasized.  Iraq continues to fight terrorism.  “We have fought terrorism for five years and have been fighting a terrorist group that controlled 30 to 40 percent of Iraqi territory,” he said.  Iraq looks forward to the Council’s support in rebuilding. 

The meeting began at 10:03 a.m. and ended at 10:20 a.m.

 

https://www.un.org/press/en/2019/sc13880.doc.htm

[alreis]

Nice, the RV is vital here also.

[screwball]

2 hours ago, alreis said:

Nice, the RV is vital here also.

Exactly...key to stability and reconstruction

[utah rock]

9 hours ago, eighty227 said:

mechanism.  Members also met the World Bank representative to discuss follow-up to international financial pledges.

Like that

[utah rock]

9 hours ago, eighty227 said:

security.  In meetings with Iraqi and United Nations interlocutors, Council members stressed the need not only for economic reform and more internal investment, but also regional economic integration.  

😎 

[ChuckFinley]

41 minutes ago, utah rock said:

Like that

 

38 minutes ago, utah rock said:

😎

[yota691]

Investment climates

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Thamer Hymes

The United Nations says the improvement in the security situation in Iraq encourages investment, praising the role of the Prime Minister's Office through the National Operations Center, in facilitating the missions of international agencies on the political, humanitarian and development aspects.

This constitutes a positive support for the investment law and activates it, and this motivates us to seriously review the achievements and climates of the first half of the current year and according to the ministerial curriculum, despite our knowledge of the new and established obstacles before and after the issuance of the curriculum.

From the legal point of view, in order to ensure the smooth flow of the investment portfolio, we note that the effective commercial law that made the private and mixed sectors complementary to the public sector, in its article 132, means that there is no place for the private sector distinguished and makes our environment repulsive for investment, The Baath Party.

Bremer's economic laws, in particular, do not create a state of institutions in response to its transition, and the investment climate in the oil industry, for example, is incomplete without the oil and gas law.

The administrative aspect of its old, modern bureaucracy is also still incomplete without a service council to put the right man in his proper place, regardless of the considerations that continue to act as the cause of all non-objective obstacles.

In the file of water resources, for example, we find that what is allocated to it is the least in terms of dams, reservoirs, systems and river cisterns, which may threaten our food security under importation 

Random.

On the development side, only a few months left of the current year, and loans from small and medium-sized enterprises, monitored by Central Trillona and 700 billion dinars, have not been disbursed by the relevant banks at a time when the housing crisis is growing, Percent of our manufacturing industry and absorb unemployment for dozens of related professions.

Moreover, the housing industry, with its prosperity, is a great challenge to the depleted importer of our difficult currency. If we were to control our market, we would have to pay $ 10 billion. The role of the Ministry of Planning is to highlight the role of the Ministry of Planning, And outputs, and the marking of this is legal, since electric power is an absolute priority as an infrastructure, it is impossible to imagine any sector that grows without it.

In spite of all this, we do not deny the achievements of the projects during the last period, despite the fact that they are low and do not rise to the level of investment in the governorates. level Ambition.

[DWS112]

21 minutes ago, yota691 said:

investment climate in the oil industry, for example, is incomplete without the oil and gas law.

 

[screwball]

Yep...said it was there first in 15 years

[yota691]

 

Minister of Immigration discusses with the UNAMI delegation the voluntary return of IDPs

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The Ministry of Displacement and Migration discussed Saturday the situation of internally displaced persons and internally displaced persons with the United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNMIK). 
A statement issued by the ministry said that Minister of Immigration Nofal Musa had received the humanitarian coordinator for Leoni Marta Rhodes and the official of Oklahoma Aidan Olari at the ministry's headquarters.

"The humanitarian situation of IDPs and returnees, the role of the UN and the UNAMI mission in assisting the ministry, as well as the role of donor countries in supporting the reconstruction of destroyed cities, were discussed." 

[ChuckFinley]

19 hours ago, DWS112 said:

 

 

15 hours ago, screwball said:

Yep...said it was there first in 15 years

Hope that meeting on Wednesday went a long way to getting tnis done. 

[nannab]

The displaced should have been taken care of before the fist raise in

pay was authorized.  Thanks Yota 

[ChuckFinley]

5 minutes ago, nannab said:

The displaced should have been taken care of before the fist raise in

pay was authorized.  Thanks Yota 

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Anti-money laundering: Freeze the funds of 5 people on charges of financing terrorism

BAGHDAD - The Anti-Money Laundering Committee of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers on Sunday (July 21st, 2019) issued a decision to freeze the funds of 5 people on charges of financing terrorism and preventing them from traveling.

According to a document issued by the committee, it decided to add 5 people under the Security Council resolutions, namely "Ahmed Agha, Hoka Huka Aseini, Mahri Sayed Ammar bin Daha, Mohammed bin Ahmed Mahri and Mohamed Ould Matali, all from the Republic of Mali."

"These persons are prohibited from traveling in accordance with the provisions of the previous Article of the Charter of the United Nations."

She added: "This decision will be circulated to ministries and entities not associated with the Ministry, all governorates, financial and non-financial institutions and the relevant departments for the purpose of taking appropriate action against them." 

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Israeli hints bombarded the port of Beirut and Iraq

Political | 01:29 - 24/07/2019

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - 
Israel's permanent representative to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said in a speech to the Security Council that Hezbollah and Iran were accused of arms smuggling, hinting at Iraq as it unfolded. 
Danone again opened accusations of missile manufacturing in Lebanon and accused Iran of transferring equipment to Hezbollah through the Beirut port to develop its missile production program. 
The Israeli diplomat stressed to the Security Council that Syrian and Iranian sources are acquiring equipment from foreign companies by "concealing their true intentions." 
In an attempt to convince the members of the Security Council of the Israeli point of view, Danone presented a map showing what he described as "routes of smuggling military equipment to the terrorist organization, including air from Damascus airport to Beirut airport and land via the factory crossing between Iraq and Syria and by sea through the port of Beirut" .
"Tehran prefers the transfer of weapons and equipment by sea to avoid the air strikes being attributed to Israel," the website of the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted analysts as saying. 
"Iran now refrains from confronting a direct naval confrontation with Israel as it seeks to ease the sanctions imposed on it by negotiation," he said. 
In a remarkable and traditional illustration of the exaggeration of the dangers to Israel, the Israeli position attributed these analysts to the possibility of "targeting Israeli warships and warships by rockets," adding that the Israeli Navy leadership is preparing for such a scenario.